SPOKANE, Wash. -- Voters in Washington are being swarmed with advertisements about Initiative 645, which would repeal the state's millionaire's tax passed by the legislature.

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Pope Leo XIV has lung cancer and had the lower lobe of his right lung removed, the Vatican announced Tuesday. The surgery confirmed a diagnosis of lung adenocarcinoma.

Regulator looks to expand loophole to allow dangerous compounds in food as long as they’re not carcinogenic

Residents of Dalby may soon live beside a $31bn datacentre. The premier sees ‘opportunity’ for the state – but others fear AI’s global creep

SPOKANE, Wash - Hundreds of Spokane-area homeowners have lost their insurance coverage in recent years, and the threat of more cancellations looms as wildfire seasons intensify across the region.

A dozen Impressionist and post-Impressionist artworks valued at almost half a billion dollars are going up for auction.

Half of the guest op-eds in the Spokesman are now heavily AI-written

A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.

Permanent resident detained at US border for 6 hours, questioned about voting history

‘The day Saff came into the studio with red hair, I said, “We’re gonna be massive!” It was the missing link’

The Trump administration says easing these standards will make cars more affordable. Critics say it's not so simple and could be costly for the environment.

Some states deliver meals to Medicaid patients that address their dietary needs. Evidence shows it aids recovery and saves healthcare costs, but federal budget cuts may lead some states to cancel it.

Tennessee officials say they need more high-security facilities for kids who commit crimes. Experts say this approach flies in the face of crime data and research that shows youth prisons are not reha...

The Supreme Court is allowing states to resume using a controversial federal tool to check voter eligibility before the November elections.

The Supreme Court is allowing use of a data system that Trump officials overhauled. The system has erroneously flagged U.S. citizens and a lower court found it violated federal privacy protections.

EVs with 90,000 to 120,000 miles on the clock are more likely to pass MOTs than petrol models of the same age Motorists buying a secondhand car with a lot of miles on the clock are likely to find an electric vehicle (EV) ultimately more reliable than a petrol vehicle, according to a study. An analysis of 47.4m MOT tests found that after cars were driven 90,000 to 120,000 miles, EVs were about 25% less likely to fail than petrol models of the same age (based on a failure rate of 16.5% versus 22.1%). Continue reading...

The move came after the NIH director refused Trump’s request to cut Harvard grants in an Oval Office meeting.

Medicare's new AI-enabled program denied more claims than it approved during a rocky rollout, leaving patients who were in pain to wait out a long appeals process.